together with dire predictions not only of the death of the novel

都带着关于小说会败落
but of the moribundity of the print medium

报刊新闻界垂死的可怕预言
in the electronic global village:

在当时电子时代的地球村
those flavored the air we breathed then,

我们所呼吸的空气里
along with occasional tear gas and other contaminants.

偶尔夹杂着催泪瓦斯和其他污染物的气味
One may sniff traces of that air in the Funhouse.

开心馆里的人或许会努力感受那些气息
I myself found it more invigorating than disturbing.

我自己认为这更能令人精力充沛而不是不安
May the reader find these stories likewise.

或许读者也能发现同样的故事
It's a very interesting little comparison he makes at the end.

他在最后略微得做了一个非常有趣的对比
He takes that whole foment of 1960s politics and counterculture,

他煽动了60年代的纷争和反主流文化
and essentially he says, "I found that invigorating

实质上他的意思是我感觉那气息令人精力充沛
as I hope you will find these stories invigorating,"

因此我希望你们也有同感